Marcos Restrepo

Marcos Restrepo (born 1961, Catarama, Ecuador) Restrepo is a Latin American painter who is a member of the artist group Artefactoría, founded by Xavier Patiño. Artefactoría formed in 1982 by a group of painters from the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil who are inspired by the surrealists and the unconscious. Members of Artefactoria include: Restrepo, Xavier Patiño, Jorge Velarde, Pedro Dávila, Marco Alvarado, Flavio Álava, Paco Cuesta

In 1996, Restrepo obtained the Second Prize of the V Biennial of International Painting in River Basin, Ecuador for his painting Al Finál del Tunel (shown right). In 1986, Restrepo obtained an honorable mention in the Hall Prize of Paris.